Tourist

This Visa is an entry permit for short duration, in Italy and in other countries of the Schengen area, to foreign citizens intending to travel for the purpose of tourism and leisure.

This is a Short Stay Visa only (90 days of stay maximum )

Travel insurance is mandatory for all Schengen countries. If you have not purchased, please click here

Please click here to see the check list

Kindly Note that PHOTOBOOTH is available at VFS Application Center and Photos provided are as per the OACI specifications

Photograph Quality

• The photographs must be:
• No more than 6-months old
• 35-40mm in width
• Close up of your head and top of your shoulders so that your face takes up 70 -80% of the photograph
• In sharp focus and clear
• Of high quality with no ink marks or creases

• The photographs must:
• Show you looking directly at the camera
• Show your skin tones naturally
• Have appropriate brightness and contrast
• Be printed on high quality paper, and at high resolution Photographs taken with a digital camera must be high quality colour and printed on photo-quality paper.

Style and lighting

• The photographs must be:
• Be colour neutral
• Show your eyes open and clearly visible-no hair across your eyes
• Show you facing square on to the camera, not looking over one shoulder (portrait style) or tilted, and showing both edges of your face clearly
• Be taken with a plain light-coloured background
• Be taken with uniform lighting and not show shadows or flash reflections on your face and no red eye

Glasses and head covers

• If you wear glasses:
• Be colour neutral
• The photograph must show your eyes clearly with no flash reflection off the glasses, and no tinted lenses (if possible, avoid heavy frames - wear lighter framed glasses if you have them)
• Make sure that the frames do not cover any part of your eyes.
• Head coverings :
• Are not permitted except for religious reasons, but your facial features from bottom of chin to top of forehead and both edges of your face must be clearly shown.

Expression and frame

• Your photographs must:
• Show you alone (no chair backs, toys or other people visible), looking at the camera with a neutral expression and your mouth closed.